Back to category: History Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. Martin Luther King Is an individual ever morally justified in breaking a man made law? I firmly believe the answer to this question is yes. If the question was stated as, is an individual ever legally justified in breaking a man made law I would have to say no. There are several reasons that have made me believe that it is morally justifiable in breaking the law; however the most convincing comes from Dr. Martin Luther King in his letter from a Birmingham Jail. " We can never forget what that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal..." (Classic Arguments 668). King went on in his letter to say that it would be against man made law to help a jew in Nazi Germany. What King said in his letter has to make a person think that not all laws are good for the group in society and morality is a justifiable excuse in breaking the law. Those who oppose my view on this question may be quick to ask me how come we go by law and not morality in society. Last year at St. Louis University I had... Posted by: Quentina Green Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. |
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